Research

Published papers:

1. Levontin, L., Halperin, E., & Dweck, C. S. (2013). Implicit theories block negative attributions about a longstanding adversary: The case of Israelis and Arabs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(4), 670–675.

2.  Ein-Gar, D. & Levontin, L. (2013). Giving from a distance: Putting the charitable organization at the center of the donation appeal. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23(2), 

      197-211.

3.  Levontin, L., Ein-Gar, D., & Lee, A. Y. (2015). Acts of emptying promote self-focus: A perceived resource deficiency perspective. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 25(2), 

      257-267.

4.  Levontin, L., & Yom-Tov, E.  (2017). Negative Self-Disclosure on the Web: The Role of Guilt Relief. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1068. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01068

5.  Levontin, L., & Bardi, A. (2018). Pro-Social Goals in Achievement Situations: Amity Goal Orientation Enhances the Positive Effects of Mastery Goal Orientation 

      Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(8), 1258-1269.

6.  Levontin, L., & Bardi, A. (2019). Using Personal Values to Understand the Motivational Basis of Amity Goal Orientation. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2736. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02736

7.  Levontin, L., Nakash, O., & Danziger, S. (2019). It takes two to self‐disclose: Incremental theorists facilitate others' self‐disclosure more than do entity theorists. Journal of Personality, 87(6), 1264-1276.

8.  Anisman-Razin, M., & Levontin, L. (2020). Prosocial Behavior Reframed: How Consumer Mindsets Shape Dependency-Oriented Versus Autonomy-Oriented Helping. 

      Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 5(1), 95-105.

9.  Colléony, A., Levontin, L., & Shwartz, A. (2020). Promoting meaningful and positive nature interactions for visitors to green spaces. Conservation biology: the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 34(6), 1373-1382.

10.  Ein-Gar, D., Levontin, L., & Kogut, T. (2021). The adverse effect of choice in donation decisions. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 31(3), 570-586.

11. Gilad, Z., Amir, O., & Levontin, L. (2021). The Effects of Warmth and Competence Perceptions on Users’ Choice of an AI System. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'21), May 08– 13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https: //doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3446863

12. Raz, K., Fragale, A. R., & Levontin, L. (2023). Who Do I (Dis) Trust and Monitor for Ethical Misconduct? Status, Power, and the Structural Paradox. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-22.

13. Bao, J., Durango-Cohen, E. J., Levontin, L., & Durango-Cohen, P. L. (2022). Analysis of factors influencing recurring donations in a university setting: A compound poisson mixture regression model. Journal of Business Research, 151, 489-503. 

14. Levontin, L., Gilad, Z., Shuster, B., Chako, S., Land-Zandstra, A., Lavie-Alon, N., & Shwartz, A. (2022). Standardizing the Assessment of Citizen Scientists’ Motivations: A Motivational Goal-Based Approach. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 7(1). 

15. Ackerman, R., & Levontin, L. (2024). Mindset effects on the regulation of thinking time in problem-solving. Thinking & Reasoning, 30 (3), 479-508.

16. Munichor, N., & Levontin, L. (2024). The effects of pseudo‐relevant 100% claims. Psychology & Marketing, 41, 719-733. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21945

17. Ye, S., Sneddon, J., Bardi, A., Levontin, L., Soutar, G., & Lee, J. (2024). More than meets the eye: hidden messages in the attribution of human-like values to product categories. European Journal of Marketing, 58(5), 1323-1351.

18. Yom-Tov, E. & Levontin, L. (2025). The in-situ effect of offensive ads on search engine users. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 43(3).

19. Levontin, L., Gilad, Z., Durango-Cohen, E. J., & Durango-Cohen, P. L. (2025). The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 118 

Technical reports:

1. Hazzan, O., & Levontin, L. (2018). Study-Work Conflict in Science and Engineering Higher Education. Stanford Tomorrow's Professor Postings, 1674. https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1674

2.  Levontin, L., Gilad, Z., Chako, S. (2018). The Citizen Science (CS) Motivation Scale [Measurement instrument]. https://cs-eu.net/news/questionare-motivation-citizen-science-scale Technical report

3. Fionda, V., Hartig, O., Abdolazimi, R., Amer-Yahia, S., Chen, H., Chen, X., ... & Zhu, W. (2023, April). Tutorials at The Web Conference 2023. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (pp. 648-658).

4. Mansour, A., Amir, O., & Levontin, L. (2024, May). The Potentially Negative Effects of AI Writing Assistants on Self-Disclosure. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (pp. 1-3).

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